Serenity

Keep your breath to cool your porridge

Nice and easy, does it all the time

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards

Be to her virtues very kind, be to her faults a little blind.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens

One should not lose one's temper unless one is certain of getting more and more angry to the end.

When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear

When anger rises, think of the consequences.

Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity, or registering wrongs

Our friends don't see our faults, or conceal them, or soften them

Perhaps one has to be very old before one learns to be amused rather than shocked

The wise only possess ideas, the great part of mankind are possessed by them

I am not the least afraid to die

Always first draw fresh breath after outbursts of vanity and complacency.

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

He who doesn't lose his wits over certain things has no wits to lose

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am